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The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-05-07

he hoped to neutralize Browns in
fuence in Georgia. Brown was one
of the few Southern men who,
though a prodigious bore as a
speaker, had yet managed to gain
a very great personal influence and
following through his mastery use
of some of the subtle arts of poll
tics.
In the light of later history Hills
early relations with Confederate
of prominence whom he afterwards
met in the senate chamber at Wash
ington is almost c0mical. The
chiefest and greatest admirer of
Ben Hill of all the Virginians was
Gen. Malone. The little general
regarded Hill as the ablest of the
Southern statesmen and unequaled
as an orator. The big Ben and
the little Billy were great friends,
almost chums. Hill often spoke
of Malone as the ideal fighter, and
even Mahone's enemies of to-day
admit that.
After the collapse of the Confed-
eracy, Hill and Malone did not
meet until that dramatic occasion
when Malone entered the senate
and Hill made the notable and
daring speech of attack. Then
Malone made his senatorial debut
before a packed senate chamber,
moving slowly down the aisle like
an animated and articulated skele-
ton, waving his bony finger at Hill
and saying: 81 am a better dem
ocrat than you'll" Though the
speeches on both sides were most
bitter and personal, yet it surprised
senators to hear Hill in private say
good word for Billy Malone and
there were secret suspicious that
Hill did not feel as hard as he pre-
tended to. The same was true of
Malone, and he said, after the bat
tie was over, that he had rather
have his tussle with Ben Hill than
any of them, for he could not help
liking him. There was story at
ter this battle that Hill scribbled a
line on a piece of paper and sent it
to Malone with these words, "The
same old Billy" and Malone would
never deny that the story was true.
Reagan, who knew very we'll what
Hills and Mahone's relations were
twenty years before, understood
why neither of them spoke bitterly
of the other in private.
1t has been Judge Reagan's opin-
ion that such book as he contem-
plates would better appear as a
posthumous work, one of the rea-
sons being that if the truth was
wholly to be told it would be better
to do so after all the persons in
volved had passed away. Many of
them have gone, and time has
softened those who remain SO
thoroughly that the senator's book
could hardly interest any more
than those of whom he will write.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-05-07

In a paper in the Southern Bl-
vouac for April, the following con-
versation between General Harding
and General Andrew Jackson, rela-
tive to Jackson's duel with Dick
inson, is given:
"In conversation with General
Jackson one day l said: General,
is a brave man ever frightened?
az don't know that l am COM
petent to answer that question,
said he. l replied: The world ac-
cords you as much bravery as is
possessed by any man..
"If that be so, SIR said the Gen.
eral, 4 would say l have been as
badly frightened as a gentleman
ought ever to be-
q said, Il presume that was in
some of your Indian fights"
"No,' said he, it was when |
went on the field with Dickinson.
I knew him to be a cool, brave de-
tcrmined man, and the best shot |
ever saw, and l never expected to
leave the field alive. l owe my
life to the fashion of the day-the
full-breasted coat. This and the
peculiar conformation of my much
sunken chest were all that saved
me. Dickinson's bullet struck what
appeared to be the center Of my
BODY under the right arm, and the
ball grazed my breastbone. l had
gone upon the field determined not
to fire at Dickinson, but to dis
charge my pistol in, the air, having
no ground of quarrel with him, and
not wishing to hurt a hair on hia
head. My quarrel was with his
father-in-iaw, Erwin; but when !
felt myself shot, under the impres,
sion that l had received mortal
wound, and smarting under this
belief and the physical pain, fired
the fatal shot, and no act OF my
life have ever regretted 80 much
Under the conditions of the meet
ing we had q right to reserve th'
fire, because knew that Dickinson
could shoot 80 much more quickly
than I could. It has been asserted
in public prints said Old Hickory
that I advanced on Dickinson t.
deliver my shot and that he gav'
back. both of which statements ar
false. sir. l stood in my place whe'
, I fred and Dickinson remained !,
his. receiving my shot like cool
, brave man as he was.
General Harding said that at TIM
, same interview, which was the las
, ever had with General Jackson, tn
: latter said to him:
1.-The world is greatly mletakel
about my having an ungoyernaol
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-05-07

st. Louis Globe Democrat.

In the early days of England men
were too humane to hang women,
but they drowned them. During
the reign of Henry III, however,
a woman was hanged, but as she
did not die after being on the gibbet
for day, they cut her down and
she was granted pardon. Adul-
ferrous women and sorceresses were
drowned or smothered in mud.
Stones were fastened to their necks
to prevent their swimming, or they
were sewed up in sacks. Some
times they were drowned in COM
pany with cat, a dog and snake.
The Anglo-Saxons drowned women
guilty of theft. The criminal was
thrown from the cliff or submerged.
In the Tenth century woman was
drowned at London bridge. Women
were punished by drowning in
Scotland. In 1899 Grissell Mathon
was condemned by the High Court
of Edinburg "to be taken to the
North lock and there drowned till
she be dead"
A memorable instance of drown
ing occurred ut Bavaria October
IA, 1886. Agnes Bernaurian, wife
of Duke Albert the Pious, was
dropped off the bridge of the City
of Strasburg into the Danube, by
order of her father. She appears
not to have been put into a sack
and her limbs not to have been Sc
curely bound, for she rose to the
, surface of the water and swan tt
the shore, crying, Help, help,
but the executioner put a long pole
into her hair and kept her down.
According to the Danish law
women were buried alive for theft
a method of punishment not un
known in France. In 1881 Marot'
Duplas was scourged and subjected
to this cruel death at Abbeville
and in 146O a woman named Pc
rotte Mauger, a notorious thief ant
receiver of stolen goods was, b.
order of the Provost of Paris, buriet
alive in front of the gibbet in tina
city. In ancient German histor.
We read of female criminals bein
, impaled in the mud, and in con-
paratively recent years the remain
, l. of several bodies have been foun'
to prove the truth of this assel
ton. In early England a COO
. once poisoned fourteen persons
The authorities did not believe the
. had punishment sufficiently 81
we're for her case, 50 q law wa
|, passed making her crime punishs
Q bic BY being boiled to death,
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-05-07

The KEYSTONE has long been aeknowl-
edged to he the sole representative of the
Great Upper Wood River and Sawtooth
mining regions. and. located as il Is in the
very heart of the most promising mining
country ON the face of the earth. and leav"
ing nothing undone 10 present its readers u
complete synopsis of all mining news ana
developments, rs well as matters of local
importance in the growth of kctchun, the
future metropolis of Idaho, ii is an invalus
ole guide for capital and informant to the
settler of every craft and position. Sub
scribe for il, read it, and let your friends
read what may benefit them.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-05-07

Au'ES ~ usAuS4DkE EUTS.
Mr.. Parks, farmer at Kingston,
in Kentucky, has succeeded in train
ing seven large apes to work in his
hemp-fields, and to break and pre-
pare the hemp for market. 1t is
claimed that these animals are more
rapid, and do more work than the
negroes, and at about one-quarter
the cost. They were sent to Mr..
Parks from Africa, the present of a
brother, where they are utilized for
similar work. He is so pleased
with them that he has ordered ten
more. How many employers would
be delighted if they could use dumb
animals for rough work instead of
human beings. The ape will never
join trades-unions, nor become
Knight of Labor. If they could be
bread in sufficient numbers, they
might be very useful in hot coun-
tries. Apes and monkeys are most
intelligent animals, and there are
innumerable instances in history
of their being trained to comply
with the wishes of their owners
Nine. Clemence Roger, in a recent
article in the Revue Scientitique,
shows that monkeys are well adapt
ed for field as well as domestic
work. Pyrard, the French traveller
OF two centuries ago, says that IN
his time the colonists of Sierra Le-
one employed chimpanzees in car
rying water and beating of Eortars;
and Breton has, in his Chinese pic
lures, representation of monkeys
gathering tea leaves on the top of
one of the steep ridges of ChansunC.
The ancient Egyptians, too, OBJ
tanned considerable services from
the cynocephalus, a variety of bab-
DON, an animal that it was selected
by them as the symbol of intellect.
Button describes a female chimpan-
zee at Loango which could make
the beds, sweep the house and help
turn the spit. IIonzeau expresses
the opinion that these female mon
keys would make excellent nurses
for children, their milk being ex-
ceedingly rich in butter. Buttons
black chimpanzee knew how TO un-
lock door, and if he did not find
the key in the lock, would hunt for
it. The monkey took its meal like
a well-bred person, ate with n spoon
and fork, used plate and served
itself with wine. In one of her let
ters from the Malay Peninsula, Miss
Bird describes a dinner to which
she was invited, and at which her
companions were two apes. The
apes had their curry, chutney, pine
apple, eggs, and bananas on porce-
lain, and SO had l., #" writes the en-
terprising lady, who speaks of an
other ape, which was an important
member of the family of the British
Resident of Klang, as walking OH
its hind legs and going along qui-
etly by her side like human es-
cort. 1t had not even a rudimen-
tary tail, and when it sat with its
arms folded it looked like "gen.
tlemanly person in a close-litting
suit" These facts open wide field
of possibilities. Africa swarms with
large apes, and under proper eli
matte conditions, with good treat
ment, there is no reason why this
very intelligent animal should not
be made to subserve human uses.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-05-07

A MOUNTAIN range in Central
Asia has been named for the Rus
sian adventurer, Gen. Prjevalsky,
who discovered it. If the children
of the future have got to study ge-
ography, Russians must be pro-
hibited from discovering anything
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-05-07

PEOPLE call it putting up" at
a hotel, because there is 80 much
that thsy have to put up With.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-05-07

The love and admiration in which
Wade Hampton is held by the peo-
pie Of South Carolina are illus
trated in an incident related by
General Hampton when ne was re-
covering from his sickness.
81 am certain" he said, "that
my life was saved by the fervent
prayers of the people of South Car
olina. was at the point of death,
and had lost all interest in life,
when l received a letter. from an
old Methodist minister, friend,
telling me of the deep and devout
petitions put up for my restoration
to health by the Methodist Con-
ference, then in session at Newberry.
The letter closed by begging me to
exercise my will to live, in response
to the supplications of the people
Of the whole state, who were pray
ing for me night and day in every
household. When | heard the let
ter read.I promised my sister that
1 would heed the kind, loving
words of the man Of God, and
arouse my will to live. That night
fell into deep sleep, and dreamed
most vividly that / was in a spa
cious room, in which l was moved
to all parts of the State, so that
met my assembled friends every
where. remember most distinctly
of all old Beaufort, where l had last
been. saw immense assemblages
and as l looked down upon them
a grave parsonage approached me
and touched me on the shoulder
and said to me: "These people
are praying for you. Live Live =
Live |" l never realized any
thing like it before. 1t seemed like
a vision. / woke next morning
feeling the life-blood creepin:
through my veins, and l told m,
family that the crisis had passed
and that shold get better"
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temper. / never gave an exhibit
ton of temper without my judg-
ment approved it. l sometimes
found it necessary even to prevent
the shedding of blood"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-27
Shut Down OH 1t.

Who has not become Disguised, nausea
ted. with all the talk about ono DR.. Me-
Glynn i'm America and an old transatlan-
tic man callod the Pope? Who cares
ANYTHING about the quarrel between these
two men? Who cares whether McGlynn
is better or worse than the Pope? Wheth-
or he is in the Roman church or ont of it
Whether the Pope communicates Nc
Glynn or lets him stay in? The Chris
tian churches have disciplined thousands
of her members just as good AS DR.. Nc
Glynn or the Pope and little was said
about it beyond the church or locality
Immediately concerned.
Such is Jesntism that all this talk and
fuss about McGlynn being called tn
Rome, his refusal to 90 and the Pope
sending over a boycotting sentence
against the refractory priest may be a
sham to bring Romanism and the Pope
into greater no:oriety among the people
of the United States.
Whether the quarrel Is real or sham the
better way is for Protestants to let the
priest and the Pope and their allies fight
it out on their own line and in their own
sectarian enclosure. Other people have
had enough and heard enough of tho in
affair.
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HOUSE AND FARM
Feeding Young Pigs.

1t does not take long for a good lit
ter of young pigs to outgrow the ca
pacity of the SOW to furnish enough
milk to keep them thrifty. This milk
from its dam is the best possible nour-
ishment for young pigs as for all other
young animals; but with the stomach
to be filled the SOW cannot possibly
give enough milk to fully satisfy them,
however we'll fed she may be-. BY the
time the pigs are ten days to two
weeks old they will begin to eat, and
they should be helped to all they can
devour. A handful Of oats or cracked
wheat is excellent for the young pigs,
and scarcely anything is better for the
old sow. Corn should not be given at
this tender age, nor, in fact, in any
quantity until their growth is pretty
we'll made. 1t is great loss to fail to
feed young pigs well, as they make
more growth from the same amount of
nutriment than at any subsequent
time in their lives. And yet, relying
wholly upon what they can get from
the sow, many pigs in large litters be-
come stunted even before they are
weaned, and their growth is so check
ed that it costs nearly all they are
worth to get them started in growing
again. Unless the owner is willing to
take some extra pains in feeding the
weaklings litter of pigs may prove
less profitable than a small one.
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Tired of War Lectures and Literature,

Yes. am tired! Tired of the inter-
minable Century articles, tired of the
Lowell lectures on battles, tired of the
war scenes which the ingenious pen of
General Grant has depicted-the shar-
ing and promoting of which led that
great soldier to hate the sight of even
review! | may not be rs severely
truthful as General Sherman and call
war only another name for cruelty,
but I cannot see how any one who,
with Mr.. Angel, pities the sufferngs
of animals, birds, and even insects,
can hear without shame and disgust of
the cruelties inflicted on soldiers in
prison ami in battle. I will not say
with General Sherman in his speech
to the young men of Ohio, "Young
men war is hell" But a good man
who witnesses battle and serves in q
hospital for the first time must feel in
such all atmosphere as clean-minded,
clean-mouthed boy is said to feel at
his first cigar, first oath, first glass of
liquor, first night at low saloon or
brothel. The finer instincts must
shrink and cover with shame.
A battle is not the place poets pic
ture or historians describe. Fiction Is
never more untrue than when it por-
trays one. The Erckman Chatrian
novels are an exception.
They are more realistic than Head
ley, Abbott or Scott and all the roman
GERS Of fighting.
The simple fact is that in our day an
advance towards and into battle
lacks the element of grandeur. 1t is
the cunning of huntsmen or the Prov
ess Of prize-fghter that is most evil
dent.
Smoke and dust cover and hide the
advancing columns.
The benumbing din of cannon, the
murderous hiss of minnie balls, the
shrill squeal and yell of the hurtling
shells, take the place of brass bands
and drum corps. The latter are at
their best at military musters. They
do q little to cheer heavy and sad
marches over muddy roads, when the
feet are soggy and backs are breaking.
But during battle the music makers
carry manned men on those" bier-like
vehicles called "stretchers," whose
ear-piercing and heart-breaking dis
cord is made up of groans, and on the
canvas of which blood puddles, and
through which it oozes. In most
fights the soldier is denied the poor ex-
hilaration of conscious triumph. Nei-
ther General Meade nor General Lee
was quite sure, at the close of the third
at Gettysburg, which had conquered.
General Meade, at least his officers
and men, were uncertain whether the
enemy had fled or waited to renew or
repulse an attack.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-27
Fair Bird DestrOycrS.

That tickle, changeable, fantastic,
and often nonsensical goddess, Fash
ion, and her fair votaries, are answera-
ble in part for the destruction of the
birds, and particularly of those adorn-
ed with brilliant plumage. Many a
fair maiden, or woman, tender heart
ed, considerate or sympathetic, who
would be shocked by the wanton cru
city of the thoughtless boy who would
kill the beautiful little humming bird
as it fits from flower to flower, is quite
rcconciled to the act if the dead bird
can be treated by the taxidermist and
added to the aviary upon the curious
structure which is now worn III the
place of the bonnet which adorned
and protected the head of her mother
and erandmothers of different degrees
for generations. Questionable as is
the taste that places a yellow eyed
screech owl, or vamprish bat, upon a
Iady's headgear, it is a well-known
fact that thousands and tens of thous-
ands of our much-prized birds become
sacrifice to fashion each year.
tits gratifying to learn that the Au-
dubon Society, whose members pledge
themselves to do all in their power to
discourage, and, if possible, suppress
the use of birds and birds' feathers as
ornaments of dress, ia rapidly extend
ing its sphere Of usefulness and hu-
manity. 1t would he well if in every
citv, town and school district in the
United States the girls and boys would
organize a society or club having for
its object the protection of our harm
less, beautiful and musical birds. The
girls, by refraining from the use OF
birds, or the plumage of birds, for or
nament; and the boys, by ceasing to
stone, shoot, or trap such birds, or tc
rob their nests of eggs, or young, and
by waging a war of determination
against the sparrows, can do much to-
wards restoring to us the birds whose
absence and loss is so much to be i'm
plored.
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The Sunday Newspaper.

A seventh part of every mans eXis
tence is to be given to the considera
ton of relations to God and eternity
No other view than this can come VI
to the meaning of the words, RE
member the Sabbath day"-that is
the rest day-"to keep it holy" Now
the whole tendency of the Sunday
newspaper is to break down and oblit
crate this important truth. 1t says, III
effect, that there is no difference be-
tween Sunday and other days as tc
what one is to read and think about
The fact that most men have more lei
sure is only a reason why they should
read more of the same kind of matter
which they read during the secular
week. And the paper, coming tt
them in the morning, cannot but give
their thoughts and feelings direction
wholly inconsistent with the design o
the day. And this is true, whatever
he the character of the journal. II
may be pure and elevated in tone. anC
its coutcnts both interesting and in
strnctive vet, being thoroughly secu
lar, "of the earth earthly" it must
needs lead the readers mind away
from the things which the rest-day
was intended to keep before him. In.
deed, it is hardly paradox to say that
the better the Sunday paper is in q lit
erary point of view the worse is its in
tluence, because it is the better adapted
to catch the unwary and lead them
away from the proper use of holy time
No man can habitually read such a pa
per without insensibly losing the feel
ing that there is any sacredness i'll the
first day Of the week.
Take away the religious sanction o.
Sunday, and its hold upon the public
mind is gone. This religious sanction
journals habitually undermines
Hence the deliberate assertion thai
such issue is evil, and only evil, and
that continually. Editors and pub
fishers may not, doubtless, do not
think so; such is the fact.